BlackDragon

The Cowboy and Cobra are pretty similar. My choice was the Cobra only because the seller was local enough to pick it up and avoid the freight charge, which saved me $350. They come up for sale from time to time here on the forum's marketplace. Rarely under $3k but it does happen.

I have this tool and it works well. As fredk said, it's personal preference. If the handle is to thin for your hand you can wrap it to make it thicker.

Thanks for the feeback. I'll be calling my bank and looking at Square and Clover more closely. I breezed through the Clover and Square websites and noticed that Clover can integrate with woocommerce and other website apps. With Square it looks like you have to create an online store through them. Square hardware looks to be cheaper than Clover. I'll do more research on them.

I'm opening my shop soon and was wondering what other shop owners do for payments. I would like to do all cash but in todays world it's not as convienant as it once was. On my website I'll be using WooCommerce and they take major credit cards. But need something for my brick and mortar store. Are people using something like Square or another POS? Do you accept Paypal, Cashapp or other similar apps?

Welcome from TN!

I dont know how it works on this particular forum but on many forums if they delete an account all posts from that person gets deleted. So it would really make a mess of older threads. Best thing to do is to eleminate any profile info you dont want on there and change your profile's email to a nonexisting email so you cant retrieve a new password. Then reset your passsword to something you wont remember. Log off and you wont be able to log back in.

Welcome to the forum from Tenn

"Load of waffle" in Britsh means "a bunch of gobbledegook" to us.

Here's thread started in Sept about knives.

The first post on that link has the photos attached but you have to become a member to see them

They work good for thin leathers, under 3oz. If you try to cut thicker leathers its harder to control the blade and you may end up cutting yourself. I have 3 x-acto handles and usually use the #2 handle for small jobs

I speak spanish but my family says I sound like an American I can barely write in spanish. I rarely drink mate but I'm always ready for an asado. Lets throw in some home made empanadas too.

Welcome! I was born in Buenos Aires and moved to the US 54 years ago.

It looks like a high gloss shine

Can you have the person take a picture of the badge with a ruler? You can then print it to the correct size.

From his website "Copyright info: You can sell a maximum of 10 items made with this pattern each year." I could sell limited runs of his patterns but I can do that with my own designs.

That looks like Japanning or Tool Black. It's a protective lacquer coating against rust, mostly for tools. Lacquer thinner should remove it but I would redo the blacking or use cold bluing to protect your tools.

I hand stitched it all. I punched the holes in the brim then just pushed the needles through the thin leather I used for piping while feeding the wire.

I made a hat a while back. I used galvinized wire for the brim so I could shape it. I made the crown a little bigger than I needed so I could make a leather band on the inside to size it better. I used several coats of undiluted resolene to seal it. The only real regret was I made it to round.

Look great! To avoid the skipped stitches on turns make sure your needle is beginning its up stroke before you turn your leather. This will ensure your stitch made a knot.

I never do the math, mostly because I'm bad at math. As I get to the tip I will begin to adjust for the gap. By hand cranking I get the needle just above the leather then lift the foot to move the leather to the desired spot. I'll do this over 3 or 4 stitches.

The closest dealer was ZackWhite so I figured it was a good excuse to go to a local leather supplier to save $400 in shipping just to spend it buying more supplies while I was there. Whether I needed it or not. Lol

I bought the Cobra over the Cowboy because I could pick it up a couple of hours away to avoid shipping costs.

Welcome!

I've bought a couple of his patterns in the past. But at this point since the pattern is copyrighted I can't use his patterns for sales unless I change them. So I just make my own.